Upcoming Webinar! The Expert Approach to Preclinical Indirect Calorimetry Experiments, Presented by Alex Banks, PhD
Please join Sable Systems and our partner, Inside Scientific, for the upcoming webinar “The Expert Approach to Preclinical Indirect Calorimetry Experiments.” The webinar will explore the International Indirect Calorimetry Consensus Committee’s (IICCC) standardized guidelines for preclinical indirect calorimetry, focusing on rigorous data normalization techniques and the integration of multi-modal physiological measures to ensure experimental reproducibility. This webinar takes place on Thursday, March 12, from 9-10 am Pacific Time. Register here for this free webinar.
Our speaker is Alexander Banks, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the Division of Endocrinology. He is the director of the Energy Balance Core Facility and serves as chairman of the International Indirect Calorimetry Consensus Committee – a group dedicated to establishing standards for analysis methods that promote greater portability, transparency, and reproducibility in metabolic research.
In this webinar, Dr. Banks discusses the standardized guidelines for visualizing and analyzing indirect calorimetry data to ensure meaningful comparisons. These guidelines have been established by the IICCC to enable data sharing and aggregation and have allowed the creation of a much-needed data repository. Generating an in-depth machine-readable data repository will enable the utilization of improved analysis techniques.
Dr. Banks also presents cutting-edge experiments using the Sable Systems Promethion indirect calorimeter to determine energy balance from measures of food intake and energy expenditure. He examines best practices to ensure quality control for experiments and discusses the future of physiology research by merging calorimetry data with continuous glucose monitoring, brain activity measurement, chemo-genetics, optogenetics, and stable isotope tracer analysis. Lastly, he will present the framework for large-scale indirect calorimetry data sharing.